B121 crash in Tower Hamlets on 1 April 1995 at 15:50 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A car and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets at 15:50 on Saturday 1 April 1995. The 24-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Apr 1995
- Saturday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51817, longitude -0.04389, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199501HD00095
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 121
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 30 June 1983
30 m awayRef 1983010HD0192
Slight
Car crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 10 August 1987
32 m awayRef 198701HD00238
Slight
Car crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 9 February 1987
32 m awayRef 198701HD00045
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 4 March 2001
36 m awayRef 200101HT00265
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 11 July 2023
37 m awayRef 2023010454601
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 17 December 2025
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 199501HD00095 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tower Hamlets road accident statistics for 1995.